Leviticus:21

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* And the LORD said to Moses , "Speak to the priests , the sons of Aaron , and say to them that none of them shall defile himself for the dead among his people , * except for his nearest of kin , his mother , his father , his son , his daughter , his brother , * or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband ; for her he may defile himself ). * He shall not defile himself as a husband among his people and so profane himself . * They shall not make tonsures upon their heads , nor shave off the edges of their beards , nor make any cuttings in their flesh . * They shall be holy to their God , and not profane the name of their God ; for they offer the offerings by fire to the LORD , the bread of their God ; therefore they shall be holy . * They shall not marry a harlot or a woman who has been defiled ; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband ; for the priest is holy to his God . * You shall consecrate him , for he offers the bread of your God ; he shall be holy to you ; for I the LORD , who sanctify you , am holy . * And the daughter of any priest , if she profanes herself by playing the harlot , profanes her father ; she shall be burned with fire . * "The priest who is chief among his brethren , upon whose head the anointing oil is poured , and who has been consecrated to wear the garments , shall not let the hair of his head hang loose , nor rend his clothes ; * he shall not go in to any dead body , nor defile himself , even for his father or for his mother ; * neither shall he go out of the sanctuary , nor profane the sanctuary of his God ; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him : I am the LORD . * And he shall take a wife in her virginity . * A widow , or one divorced , or a woman who has been defiled , or a harlot , these he shall not marry ; but he shall take to wife a virgin of his own people , * that he may not profane his children among his people ; for I am the LORD who sanctify him ." * And the LORD said to Moses , * "Say to Aaron , None of your descendants throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God . * For no one who has a blemish shall draw near , a man blind or lame , or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long , * or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand , * or a hunchback , or a dwarf , or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles ; * no man of the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the LORD 's offerings by fire ; since he has a blemish , he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God . * He may eat the bread of his God , both of the most holy and of the holy things , * but he shall not come near the veil or approach the altar , because he has a blemish , that he may not profane my sanctuaries ; for I am the LORD who sanctify them ." * So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel .

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